Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 158
The Venus mountain stood out gray and bare, overshadowing the valley beneath.
Who acts: Venus mountain · What happens: stand out, overshadow · To what, where: valley
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Venus mountain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 2 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mountain | compound |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stood | compound:prt |
| 6 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bare | cc |
| 8 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gray | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 overshadowing | punct |
| 10 | overshadowing | overshadow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 valley | det |
| 12 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overshadowing | obj |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 10 overshadowing | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand out | past | the Venus mountain | gray property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | overshadow | gerund | the Venus mountain not said here | the valley | beneath property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent valley=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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